Demonstration Against Nehru
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MADRAS, January 6. Police today clashed with demonstrators who tried to attack the car in which the Indian Prime Minister drove into Madras after arriving at a nearby airport. Mr Nehru’s car escaped damage, but several cars following it in the official procession were dented. Twenty-six persons were arrested. In further demonstrations, twenty-five were injured when the police used tear-gas and made baton charges.
The demonstrators were members of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam—an extremist Hindu Brahmin organisation—who were protesting against “insulting remarks” which they alleged Mr Nehru had made about South Indians. Mr Nehru had described as completely wrong the attitude of eminent South Indians that the North Indian language, Hindi, was being imposed on the Dravidianspeaking South Indians. More than two thousand Kazhagam followers waved black flags while Mr Nehru drove into Madras.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28480, 9 January 1958, Page 7
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